01-12-2021, 01:29 PM
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Contest, Sport, it's all good......
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: West of Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 760
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Note that the Chrome on the original Cox Little Joe-II was done out of expediency, not accuracy (uh, note the lack of UNITED STATES decals on the side, and the inaccurate tower). One can never make a good scale model by trying ot duplicate the errors in a bad scale model.
Note, I really like the Cox model for what it was, but do not go down the rabbit hole of copying inaccurate things that you do have an option to do more accurately. I saw a FLYING Lunar Module quadcopter that was based on the Metal Earth LM, so it did not look very good. Such a shame the builder did not base his model on say a Monogram 1/48 LM or one of the nice paper models.
I used to use an Aluminum paint by SNJ that is no longer around. Then used Model Master Aluminum since then.
Trying to "cover" with foil will drive you nuts.
A number of photos on various missions on my website. Seems like with some of them the aluminum was pretty shiny when originally built but oxidized by the time some of them flew.
http://georgesrockets.com/GRP/Scale.../JoePhotos.html
http://georgesrockets.com/GRP/Scale...JoePhotos2.html
Below, Mission A-004 on pad (5th and last one to fly)
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